Mlkk Workbook #002 Designing Orders

This workbook comprised of the work of Mlkk Studio in 2015. The projects featured are across the globe including Hong Kong China, Hawaii USA and Gold Coast Australia.

Aesop IFC Travel Furniture Set

The project is a testing ground to experiment a new pop-up store concept. A typical pop-up store is highly restricted in sizes, construction time and methods by the context or requirement of landlords. It usually ends up with compromising certain functional needs. We create a new compact pop-up device that can fulfill all the functional, emotional and aesthetic needs of the store through diligent thinking and exploring the potential of multi-dimensional access ways to a furniture unit. The design elegantly condenses a typical 40sqm store element into just 6 pieces of individual furnitures. With this premise in mind, every millimeter is thought-through and all dimensions are obsessively calibrated to maximize its usage potentials like a Swiss-army knife for retail experience. All the senses of retail experiences are incorporated without compromises in the unit – the oil burner diffuser and greenery for scent, integrated lighting for sight, felt insert for touch and silent hardware for hearing.

Aesop Travelling Pop Up Store

Pop-up store is one of the global phenomena in the retail industry which often requires fast design solution and high degree of flexibility. The project is a universal design solution responding to this circumstance which can be adopted anywhere in the world. It is about designing 3 manuals including The Construction Manual, The Setup Manual and The Operation Manual which offer a thought-through design solution for the preparation, execution, operation and maintenance phases of the pop-up store. The pop-up store concept is formed by a furniture set and is site-adaptive and movable. The design aims to offer a thought-through design solution which can cater the retail requirements without repeating the rush design process which is common in the context of pop-up store.